Rhubarb grows in our garden, mainly for the purpose of becoming wine, although occasionally it is paired with strawberries in a dessert. Blackberries grow many places nearby and every year I like to pick them for pies and wine. Rhubarb wine is not for the faint of heart, but we enjoy it, particularly mixed with…
There’s a very good article in the July/August issue of Discover magazine, “The End of Morality” by Kristin Ohlson. (See link at the bottom of the page.) Much of the article focuses on the work of Joshua Greene of Harvard. He studies the brain activities of people as they struggle to resolve some classic moral dilemmas. Here…
Not so long ago, I had to have my photo taken for my drivers license renewal. I rummaged around in my purse, found some lipstick, and put it on. I have never been particularly photogenic and things have not improved with age, so I decided to take whatever help I could get. The lipstick was there only…
Here is the first paragraph of A Tale of Two Cities…
Yes, I know this review is about 35 years overdue, but this is a book I somehow never got around to reading before (nor did I see the TV series or the recent Korean film). Now that I am educating myself about Australian “culture” I decided it was time to request a library copy of…
[If you get bored partway through this post, please go straight to the end and click on the link to the clip from the Carol Burnett show. It is not to be missed.] A few days ago, I showed up at my dentist’s office at 7:30 a.m., to deal with an aching tooth. He promptly referred to…
“Winner of the Man Booker Prize 2005” I wouldn’t give him any prize for this depressing book. It was certainly skillful, and the language impressive. Good vocabulary exercise, for example… leporine proscenium declivities of my shoulders concave integument below his breast-bone an interior succubus a clear ichor glinted pharaonic nostrils [I can guess this one]
I am very pleased with myself this evening, given that the day didn’t start so well. When I got up, I remembered that last night my computer was infected, as I watched, with a fake Security Protection malware bug. I just turned the computer off since it was late and I knew I needed a clear…
Seeing Clarely 